Holcomb
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from any of various places, for example in Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Greater Manchester, Oxfordshire, and Somerset, so named from Old English hoi ‘hollow’, ‘sunken’, ‘deep’ -i-
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈhoʊɫkəm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Holcomb is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 12K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 16K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 21K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 436 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
habitational name from any of various places, for example in Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Greater Manchester, Oxfordshire, and Somerset, so named from Old English hoi ‘hollow’, ‘sunken’, ‘deep’ -i- cumb ‘valley’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Holcomb counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Holcomb | 6 |
| US United States | — | 28,852 | 1 in 12K | 29K | Holcomb | 436 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Holcomb | 51 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Holcomb | 7 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Holcomb | 47 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Holcomb | 2 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Holcomb | 2 |
| PS Palestine | #605 | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Holcomb | 3 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Silas A. Holcombb. 1858USAmerican politician (1858-1920)
- Thomas Holcombb. 1879USCommandant of the Marine Corps (1879–1965)
- Donald F. Holcombb. 1925USAmerican physicist
- Rod Holcombb. 1943USAmerican television director and producer (1943–2024)
- Robin Holcombb. 1954USAmerican musician
- Sarah Holcombb. 1958USAmerican singer and former actress
- Eric Holcombb. 1968USGovernor of Indiana since 2017
- Corey Holcombb. 1968USAmerican actor and comedian
- Randy Holcombb. 1979USLibyan basketball player (born 1979)
- Steven Holcombb. 1980USAmerican bobsledder (1980–2017)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 29K | #1,227 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 29K | #1,120 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 27K | #1,259 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Holcomb mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from any of various places, for example in Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Greater Manchester, Oxfordshire, and Somerset, so named from Old English hoi ‘hollow’, ‘sunken’, ‘deep’ -i-… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Holcomb?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhoʊɫkəm/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Holcomb have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 117 thousand people named Holcomb in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled holcomb.
- How common is the name Holcomb?
- In the United States, the national register counted 28,852 people named Holcomb in 2010, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Holcomb compared with other names?
- In Palestine, Holcomb is the 605th most common surname of 17,903 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/holcombThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Holcomb” — the 605th most common surname in Palestine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.